Omaha daily bee., 1887-09-30
PROMINENT PERSONS.


to ST. Petersburg
Mark Twain is over the half way line. He
will be tifty-twO next month.
Sir Henry Isaacs Is the third Hebrew mer-
chant who has become sheriff of London.
Senator Sherman is said to he great pc
destrian. He likes to foot 1t over whole
country.
Bob Burdette will resume his contributions
to the Burlington Hawkeye at the rate of
column week.
Phil Armour, the pork potentate, pays a
doctor 5 10. 900 year to see that his pulse is
in good working order.
Prof. Brooks, the distinguished astronomer
of Phelps. N. Y, has discovered eleven
comets in the last seven years.
Eugene Higgins is said to be socially as
amiable as lamb 1t is only as a spoils
statesman that he becomes ferocious.
Bismarck takes one bath day. He has a
theory that too much bathing takes out too
much of the oily substance of the skin.
Robert Browning has returned to England
from the continent and will settle down in
his new house at Debere Gardens, London.
English authors have sent out $500 to the
fund for Walt Whitman, the "good gray
poet" as the mark of their respect for great
writer.
Appleton Morgan says he is the first per-
| son outside of MIR. Donnelly's family to
| whom the latter's awful BacOnian secret was
| revealed. ..
| Sir Dinshaw Manockjer Petit, Parsee
mill owner of Bombay. has in twenty years
given away 81. 100000 for various benevolent
purposes.
Brady. of star route fame. has left his Vir-
Rnia farm and moved back to Washington.
lie found the country lonely and soon sighed
for the bustle of city life.
General Butler heads the list of money.
making lawyers of the country. His fortune
is estimated at S3,5OOO0O and his annual
practice nets him 100000.
James Campbell, president of the PittsDurg
Window Glass Workers assembly. is prom
nent candidate to succeed Powderly at the
head of the knights of Labor.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has given 81 ,00C
toward building at San Jose. Cal, home
for the widows, destitute wives, and orphan
children of union veterans and army nurses
Tom Ballard. the famous counterfeiter. is
trying to do O legitimate business since his
recent Discharge from the Albany peniten
tiary. lie has opened an establishment fOl
steel engraving.
Mark Skinner. of Chicago, who. as presi
dent of the sanitary commission collected
and distributed $5,OoO,OOO to sick and
wounded soldiers during the civil war, died
Friday at Manchester, VT, aged seventy
four. lie leaves an estate of 81, ,0OO,0OO to his
wife and four daughters.
Mr. Willard bobs up again as controlling
mind in the future course of Northern Paci-
fic speculation. This little Gentleman Is as
buoyant as cork and as brisk as a kansa
grasshopper. His resumption of business a
a railroad power will give life and point anc
piquancy to the stock market aud his
experience ought to keep him out of shOa
water.
w. w. Belknap, the secretary of war unde
President Grant, who fell into disgrace, l
making his home at the quiet little village o
Powhatan Court House, about twenty mile
south of Richmond, Virginia, on the Rich
mOnd and Danvile railroad. Here he board
with private family and livOs in seclusion
HIS time is passed among his books and IL
the cultivation Of flowers.